The new widget you see below (or on top right sidebar) will readout the contents of the post, so that you can turn on the speakers, listen to my posts while doing some other activity-say working out or ironing or cooking or just lying on the bed.

If you're unable to see anything below, flash player (or the lack of it) might be the culprit

Basically it is a text to speech conversion utility. The accent is decent enough and the utility works just fine, with over 95% accuracy. It skips Indian language texts and struggles a bit while pronouncing Indian names. (It calls me Shrinidhi 'Hand' not 'Hande') Also you won't know if there's an image/hyperlink. Otherwise it is just too good.

Saw this in Nikhil's blog and instantly realized that this was what I was hunting for all these days. This utility is from blogbard.com. (Founded by Manoj B) You can create one for your blog or just login with Google credential and it can readout any feed in your Google reader.

It doesn't allow saving the speech as mp3. If that was provided one could copy the file into ipod or other mp3 players and listen at their conveinence. Right now you'll need an iTunes account for that.

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